Ruby River by Lynn Pruett

Author:Lynn Pruett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2013-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

CONNIE BOHANNON

“So, sheriff, what’s eating you?” I say, as a way of taking his order. He’s alone, without his squad, and I already know he wants country-fried steak and greens with vinegar and bitter tea.

He looks at me carefully—like, Can he trust me?—and I stand there as blank and friendly as I can look. “Did your mother truly love your daddy?”

“Sure,” I say, without thinking. I’d never considered it before.

“She’s still hung up on him. It interferes with her present life.”

“That surprises me,” I say, considering how public she’d gotten in the past year. Before Daddy went away, she stayed at home taking care of us. “She’s happy now. Happy to be seeing you. It’s the only thing she’s happy about.” I think awhile longer. “Maybe you’re a little scary.”

He laughed. “Evidently I am. But seriously, she has asked me, in not so many words, to help get the ashes returned. Then she’ll have to decide if the past or the future matters the most.”

I fell silent thinking of the ashes out there somewhere in the world. And Mama, as she waited for them to come, keeping Sheriff Dodd at arm’s length, holding the future away. I wondered how Sheriff Dodd could find those ashes when Mama couldn’t. It seemed an impossible task she had laid on him. But that is Mama, in love with the impossible.

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